Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "superman"; the death of God; and a life-affirming "will to power" are the philosophical legacies of Friedrich Nietzsche. In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Nietzsche philosopher J. P. Stern discuss these concepts as the genesis of existentialism, and as the root philosophies of fascist political movements. A BBC Production. (45 minutes)

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		Plato The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Cambridge philosophy professor Myles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ideas initially as extensions of those of his teacher, Socrates, Burnyeat explain...(more details)		VHS $149.95 DVD $149.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93 3-Year Streaming $149.95
		Aristotle In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and noted Brown University professor Martha Nussbaum. Aristotle overcomes Plato's dualism of the intelligible ...(more details)		DVD $149.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93 3-Year Streaming $149.95
		Descartes "I think, therefore I am." Rationalist philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes, considered the father of modern philosophy, held this as self-evidently true. In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Bernard Williams o...(more details)		VHS $149.95 DVD $149.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93 3-Year Streaming $149.95
		Kant World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discuss the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities and powers within the mind are the key to knowledge, and that all know...(more details)		VHS $149.95 DVD $149.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93 3-Year Streaming $149.95
		Hegel and Marx In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discuss rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism and organicism at its root. Hegel's theories of absolute idealism and of a dialectic ...(more details)		VHS $149.95 DVD $149.95

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